This thesis deals with deterioration observed in cement-concrete cover (CBK) for three selected road sections of highways in the Czech Republic. The main objective was to determine whether concrete failure arose due to alkali-silica reaction, or other mechanism. The deterioration of concrete failure was observed in the macroscopic and microscopic scale. The mostly macroscopically observed deterioration of the concrete were cracks breaking the surface and inner parts of concrete. In micro- scale the microcracks and alcali-silica gels were observed. The CBK deterioration was quantitatively determined by three main parameters: specific length of microcracks on the CBK surface, specific length of microcracks in the drill cores and volume of alcali-silica gels and microcracks in thin sections. According to these indicators it was possible to distinguish two different types of CBK deteriorations. (1) Degradation mainly associated by alkali-silica reaction (observed on highways D11 - Vrbová Lhota and D1) and (2) degradation connected with another mechanism (cycles of freezing and thawing, mechanical degradation) was observed on the highway D5.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:295891 |
Date | January 2010 |
Creators | Burdová, Anna |
Contributors | Přikryl, Richard, Martinec, Petr |
Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
Language | Czech |
Detected Language | English |
Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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